Sentences with phrase «complex literary works»

But, he wondered, in an age of texting and tweeting, are teens still reading complex literary works?

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This has been a time, finally, when the literary analysis of ancient literature has become a very significant force within the field, insisting that documents do not exist only to provide historical information, but are to be appropriated as complex works of art as well as witnesses to and interpretations of religious experiences and convictions.

Theologians move in two worlds, working not only with the abstract categories of philosophy but also with the highly concrete and often complex literary forms of the Bible.

These attempts to overturn the work of a previous era of scholarship must be regarded as unsuccessful, because the most they achieve is a demonstration that the literary relationships between the texts of the gospels as we have them are more complex than the older form of the two - source hypothesis imagined.

Each individual work bears the hallmarks of an historical context, which embeds a complex narrative incorporating literary and philosophical references as well as visual word games.

To take a cue from my mother, they can be the cake that hides the vegetables, connecting students to other works of literature, to complex literary analysis, and to the skills they need for deeper comprehension.

And he has a soft spot for literary works that are thoughtful, complex, and poetic.

Not necessarily — if policymakers, publishers, writers, literary agents and others in the content industries can work toward the creation of Library - Publisher Complex, efficient and taxpayer - sensitive.

On Ms. Phelan's page, it talks about what work she is accepting (YA and MG, literary adult fiction, etc.) and goes on to say «I am looking for complex fiction that pulls you in immediately, characters that you wish were your real friends and plot lines that drag you away from reality to a world you never want to leave.

The paintings and works on paper that comprise Ye's second solo exhibition Animal Portraits echo the age old literary practice of using animals as protagonists such as the much loved Tortoise and the Hare from Aesop's Fables, the legend of Rabbit in the Moon and the complex characters of George Orwell's Animal Farm.

Making frequent use of both analog and digital technologies, Douglas appropriates existing Hollywood genres and borrows from classic literary works to create ready - made contextual frameworks for his complex, reimagined narratives that pertain to specific places or historical events.

As she has with each of her increasingly complex and distinctive video works to date incorporating animation with live action, Reid Kelley again weaves a multilayered narrative full of blink - and - you - miss - it literary and artistic allusions and clever wordplay.

This collaboration between Jen Bervin and Charlotte Lagarde produced by Violet du Feng focuses on how contemporary Chinese women experience this complex poem, both as a literary work and as a textile.

By the time the 1960s rolled around, these works had become central to the story of 20th - century art — to the extent that the exhibition's curator, William C. Seitz, could write in the catalog that «collage and related modes of construction manifest a predisposition that is characteristically modern» insofar as they «denote not only a specific technical procedure and form used in the literary and musical as well as the plastic arts, but also a complex of attitudes and ideas.»

Underlying each work is an historical context, through which a complex narrative incorporates literary and philosophic references and visual puns.

Like all of Fernández's work, these pieces also have complex conceptual underpinnings and are full of literary and philosophical allusions.

This symposium — moderated by Mark Nash and Allison Thompson — examines «the intersection of the artistic, theoretical, literary, and cultural dimensions» in the work of Frank Bowling, the Guyanese - born, London - based artist whose work is «deeply connected to, and inflected by Édouard Glissant's notion of a «Caribbean Discourse» — the idea that the entire critical literature and art created within the historical complex of the Black Atlantic is an ongoing process of philosophical reflection.»

Making frequent use of both analog and digital technologies, Douglas appropriates existing Hollywood genres (including murder mysteries and the Western) and borrows from classic literary works (notably, Samuel Beckett, Herman Melville, and Franz Kafka) to create ready - made contextual frameworks for his complex, reimagined narratives that pertain to particular locations or past events.

Making frequent use of new as well as outdated technologies, Douglas appropriates existing Hollywood genres (including murder mysteries and the Western) and borrows from classic literary works (notably, Samuel Beckett, Herman Melville, and Franz Kafka) to create ready - made contextual frameworks for his complex, thoroughly researched projects.

There extremely complex, large - scale installations which develop literary or narrative themes are also included: Sister Perpetua's Lie, 1973, first shown at the Institute of Contemporary Art in Pennsylvania; Souvenir Piece, originally installed at Artists Space in 1973; and To Each Concrete Man, 1974, one of her most mysterious, poetic and hermetic works, formerly exhibited at the Whitney Museum of American Art.